No water, No Internet

As you all know my 2009 has started a little, shall we say, bumpy. Things are looking up but we had a minor stutter this past week, hence my lack of blog posts. We lost our internet connection for 4 days. Granted this was my fault since the bill was late but the bill has been a little late before and they never stopped our service. Our neighbors service was also stopped for late payment so I guess the internet company is getting a little touchy if your payment is a tiny bit late. Being without the internet is quite difficult. On top of the annoyance of not being able to just look something up I also had no skype. My skype rings out to my mobile phone if I don't pick it up so normally losing internet service wouldn't be a problem but this time it was b/c I ran out of skype credit (which is needed to send the calls to my mobile) and since I had no internet I couldn't add any credit to my skype account. To continue with my stumbling of 2009, we came home yesterday evening and had no water. Fortunately there were water trucks outside so we filled a couple buckets to get us through the night. We woke up this morning and still had no water. What is a girl to do...thank God for deodorant and perfume. I took the girls to school and went to a coffee morning for the parents in the girls class. Luckily for me my fellow class rep was leading the meeting. All is well now though. We have internet and water. I have learned my lesson and make sure I pay the bill early so the internet company doesn't turn us off again. I will hope that the construction around us doesn't break any more water pipes.